Putrifact Visceral Devourment Cassette Tape

Putrifact  " Visceral Devourment "  Cassette Tape

One of the earliest death metal bands to crawl out of New Jersey’s underground, Putrifact stood among the first wave alongside Incantation, Mortician, and Immolation, helping define the suffocating, low-end brutality that would become the region’s signature in the early 1990s. This was not polished death metal—it was primitive, crawling, and buried deep in rot. Tuned down to a cavernous depth and delivered with a raw, unfiltered attack, Putrifact carried that same oppressive atmosphere that Autopsy devotees worship, but twisted through the darker, heavier lens of the NJ sound.

Originally released on Afterworld Records, Visceral Devourment surfaced in 1991 as one of the earlier documents of this scene—an early manifestation of decay before the style fully took hold. It stands as a snapshot of a time when everything was slower, filthier, and driven purely by underground intent. Riffs drag like decomposing weight, drums hammer with blunt force, and the entire recording reeks of damp rehearsal rooms and tape-traded obscurity.

Now, for the first time since its original release, Rotter Records exhumes this material once again, restoring it to physical form for those who understand the value of true underground relics.

This edition comes housed on a slime green cassette, limited to 75 copies.

Featuring artwork by Paul Ledney, whose unmistakable hand further cements the connection to the earliest era of death metal’s most unhinged and blasphemous expressions.

This is not a reissue for the casual listener. This is a return to the grave.